On the day that a major political leader – yet again – demonstrated his crass insensitive and racist bigotry. I know he's not representative of Americans, but he is America's representative.

I appreciate this is childish but I need to let off steam somehow...

Having only recently elected Struan Spade as President, the voters were reluctant to admit any misjudgement. Even when Spade mistook the German Chancellor for Lara Croft, called the Israelis "Muslims in disguise", or when CCTV captured him sexually molesting a major European ally's PM.

Then Spade blundered by introducing compulsory daily stand-to-attentions for the national anthem. That December, one department store's Santa "took the knee" in protest at Spade's policies.

Spade, who still believed in Father Christmas, banned all Santas and cancelled Christmas. It was too much for the voters, who sent him to the naughty step, appointing President Coyne instead.

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Flash Fiction

﻿﻿Flash fiction is very, very short fiction indeed - short stories of any sort of length from a Haiku to ten minutes' reading. Good for when you're in a hurry. This series is a selection of contributions to Friday Flash Fiction, where there's a limit of 100 words. I try to make all mine exactly 100 words.﻿﻿